As of September 2001, 143 million Americans, or about 54 percent of the population were using the Internet. The report says 90 percent, or 47.4 million, of children between the ages of 5 and 17 now use computers at home and at school. Most people spend most of there days on the internet and thay saty on all night long. People spend over half of ther lives on the internet play games.